Wednesday, September 23, 2015
Tension
Today's feature film by Marco Berger explores his ideas about sexual tension between men even further than his short film of yesterday in
Two childhood friends meet sometime in their thirties. One is having a successful life as an author, the other has lost out on such things for himself and is trying to get a new start.
The author friend gives the other man a job cleaning up his aunt's place where he is staying. So they are close together but not close. Getting closer is the idea behind the picture. It is known that the author is gay, sort of. But not the friend turned handyman.
Long periods of sitting or working around each other ensue.
This is Berger's forté. The waiting, the looking, the guessing.
All gay men have gone through this. Is he or isn't he?
As it turns out, well you can find out if he is or he is or both of the are. Gay.
Very nice.
Hawaii, incidentally, turns out to be a state of mind involving some old Viewgraph photos from the kids'/mens' past.
You will see.
This is a 5 out of Netflix5. It is a great picture and that is why it is in our collection.
